Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On 23 August 2018 at 11:25, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> In some cases the Author: email address in patches submitted to the >> list gets mangled such that it says >> >> John Doe via Qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> >> >> This change is a result of workarounds for DMARC policies. > > I do wonder if overall we'd be better off with the other > workaround (don't change From lines in list emails, don't > add "[Qemu-devel]" prefix to subject lines)... It would be > a one-off annoyance to people who filter list mail on subject > rather than other headers, but it would get rid of this annoying > wart where a handful of senders end up with their mail with > a from address that our patch management tools don't handle > very well...
Mangling e-mail headers is a bad idea. The fact that it's commonly held only makes it worse. If you can hack QEMU, filtering on List-Id should not be an insurmountable obstacle.
